Domaine Pierre Morey

The Free Bacchus Story

Pierre Morey spent more than two decades as régisseur at Domaine Leflaive, running the vineyards through the period when Anne-Claude Leflaive converted the estate to biodynamics. He was farming his own domaine at the same time.

So the practice at Morey isn't borrowed. It is Demeter-certified biodynamic farming in Meursault and Puligny, run by someone who helped execute one of the most consequential conversions in white Burgundy and applied the same method to his own vines.

Morey farmed much of his land under metayage for the Lafon family. When the Lafons took their parcels back to work directly in 1984 it cost him about half his vineyard area, and closer to nine tenths of its value. He rebuilt from what was left.

Perrières is generally held to be the finest premier cru in Meursault, close enough to grand cru quality that its exclusion from the classification is a standing argument in Burgundy. Decanter has awarded Gold.

His daughter Anne now works alongside him. Continuity of practice across a generational handover is the part of a producer's record that no certificate captures and only time demonstrates.